Word: justinian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain's Genealogists' Magazine, Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms Anthony Richard Wagner produced a genealogy showing Neville Chamberlain to be a 19th-generation descendant of Edward I (1239-1307), who was known alternately as "Longshanks" and "The English Justinian...
...slow fall, Count Belisarius, does not quite measure up to these, largely because Belisarius is noble, dull, honest and courageous, where bumbling old Claudius was gnarled with humanness. Purporting to be the work of Eugenius, educated eunuch and slave of Belisarius' wife, it is laid in Justinian's reign, tells the story of Justinian's one capable general. Belisarius defeats the Persians, takes Carthage, conquers Italy, marries a shrewd, level-headed prostitute, Antonina, is blinded by Justinian, who fears him as a rival...
Host to the Congress was Justinian Cardinal Seredi, Archbishop of Esztergom and Primate of Hungary. His opening speech to pilgrims, in Budapest's spacious Heroes Square, where a 150-foot altar had been erected, contained no hint of the fact that he is firmly anti-Nazi. Said Cardinal Seredi: "How different would be the fate of humanity, created for happiness, wherefore it is ever seeking happiness, if the solidarity of all Catholics of the world could really be achieved." Papal Legate Pacelli, without descending from the high religious plane of the Congress, was more specific about Catholicism...
...justly is known as the English Justinian...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia visited the new $8,000,000 Bronx County Court House, exclaimed: "Why, it reminded me of the palaces of my ancestors, Justinian, Augustus Caesar and Nero. In fact, they did not know so much about splendor-they were just pikers. That building up there -oh, it's just gorgeous. Take the grand jury room, for instance. After sitting there on a ball-bearing throne in luxury that Romans never knew, the juror will go home and say Phooey!' Why, that room is so spacious that no witness will ever come...